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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!lynx.aba.net.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Support for fixed-scan monitors Date: 5 Sep 1996 06:37:09 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <50lsel$php@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32210491.41C67EA6@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> <506c75$30s@news.calweb.com> <322C38A1.41C67EA6@alcatel.no> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Arve Ronning <Arve.Ronning@alcatel.no> wrote: ... > gives X on both monitors (until XFree86 3.1.2 that is. I still use 3.1.1 > because later versions have a text-drawing bug in the Hercules code. Maybe > 3.1.2F :) ). Unreported bugs are unlikely to be fixed. > As you may have guessed by now, this requires patching in the FreeBSD boot > code. With pcvt, i think you should be able to use the unpatched driver, as long as your BIOS uses the monochrome adapter as the primary one. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)